Nenad Starovlah

Nenad Starovlah (Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Старовлах; Greek: Νέναντ Στάροβλαχ; born 29 July 1955) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player.

He was part of the team that played in the 1980–81 Yugoslav Cup final against Velež Mostar which they lost 3–2.

After ending his playing career in 1982, Starovlah took over the U10 side of Željezničar and for eight years he managed the team, winning six republic titles of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Many of these players continued their career abroad like Mario Stanić, Elvir Baljić, Marijo Dodik, Boris Vasković, Veldin Karić and others.

Radoman Vasović, the club's president at the time, declared: "Even if prior to deciding to assign Starovlah as our manager, we had information about who and what personality he had, it is not till now that we can say that we are absolutely certain that we received what we wanted: a young and professional manager, a person who is fully dedicated to football, who has energy and ambition to achieve the goal that has been set, and who knows how to teach the players how to play football but also to psychologically motivate them to always give their maximum.”[citation needed] Starovlah then joined Borac Čačak, where the committee of the club considered that he was the ideal manager to help their team achieve their major goal which was to get promotion to the First League of FR Yugoslavia.

In July 1994, Starovlah signed a 1-year contract with, at the time, Super League Greece club Ethnikos Piraeus.

On 1 October 2004, the Cypriot newspapers named him “Ο πιο πιστός στρατιώτης,” which in English means “The most dedicated soldier.” In July 2006, Starovlah became the manager of the club where it all started, Željezničar in the Bosnian Premier League.